Security & Secrecy

Mac and Vera Jo MacCready’s Interview – Part 1

W.K. MacCready: One of the challenging things we had, when we started up the separations plant and were running a reasonably complex chemical process, was that we were not able to inform our operators of the identity of any of the chemicals that they used, including the additives that they pumped out of the storage […]

Vincent and Clare Whitehead’s Interview – Part 1

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book version: BUD: I was a counter-intelligence agent at Hanford. Everybody was suspicious […]

Sam Campbell’s Interview

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book Version: I was working for Du Pont in Pryor, Oklahoma, a powder […]

Roger Fulling’s Interview (1986) – Part 1

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript of part 1 of the interview that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book Version: During the early days, before […]

Orville Hill’s Interview

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book Version: While I was in Oak Ridge, they chose the so-called bismuth […]

Opal Drum’s Interview

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book version: We came from Oklahoma. Frank worked on construction, at Tulsa on […]

O. R. Simpson’s Interview

[Interviewed by S. L. Sanger, from Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995] I am going to guess we started the convoys in May, of 1945. They took some of it by car for a couple of trips but I think it was May when we started the […]

Norman Hilberry’s Interview (1985)

[Interviewed by S. L. Sanger, from Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995] I was teaching at NYU and Ann and I had gone into our first faculty party just before Christmas ’41. Our babysitter called and told us a telegram had come. It was from Compton. “Have […]

Meta Newson’s Interview

[At top is the edited version of the interview published by S. L. Sanger in Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995. For the full transcript that matches the audio of the interview, please scroll down.] Book version: The first two years after we were married, from 1934 until […]

Lester Bowls’s Interview

[Interviewed by S. L. Sanger, from Working on the Bomb: An Oral History of WWII Hanford, Portland State University, 1995] I’m from Arkansas. Little Rock. I went to work for Du Pont, war plants in Tennessee, then Alabama, then Tennessee again, Oak Ridge. Du Pont built a mockup of Hanford at Oak Ridge. Well, I […]